New lens! Some test shots with a 50mm

With a new job comes new fun toys! Well, this can also be used for work but you know what I mean. I bought a new 50 mm 1.4 Canon lens this week and here are some of my first shots. Check out the rest of the album here. The puppy up top is my akita, Baku. He's a pretty good sport with photo taking but I think big cameras freak him out a bit. Still, I think I got some nice shots of him.

This super cool boat belonged to my boyfriends grandfather I believe. I love how the 50mm blurs everything but what's being focused on. I think it makes this boat seem bigger and more real.

 Just a view out of my living room windows. Can't wait to try this out with portraits.

with love - M

Photos: Katrina and Brian sunset photo op

Another photo post! This was a very spur of the moment shoot I did with some friends during another friends wedding. It was at a lovely country club this couple asked if I could take a photo of them together. I stood up excitedly and thought "A photo?! How about 100!" and hurried them outside to find a good spot.

I got to hand it to them. They had their poses down pretty good. I don't remember having to give any corrections to their posture or anything, which is rare. Looking back, I wish I had taken more time to adjust my settings and do some more close up shots...and I wish I had brought my tripod...and some under lighting... But hey! When it's spur of the moment, I don't like missing these wonderful opportunities for portraits.

I just hope they enjoy the photos as much as I enjoy taking them. Check the rest of the gallery out here.

with love - M

Pregnancy Photo Shoot: Nicole and The Bump

Memories...This little photo shoot was done just a month or so before my dearest friend Nicole had her first baby. It's true what they say, she really was glowing. I definitely have a fascination with how beautiful the baby bump looks on women. Hopefully I'll be luck enough to shoot her again, should the need arise ^.-

Taking these shots was so easy in some ways and so hard in others. Easy because Nikki is almost always so picture perfect, it's hard to take a bad shot of someone who smiles so genuinely. But super hard because I was stressed out she wouldn't like how she looked in the photos. Even if I thought she looked fabulous in a certain pose, it can be hard to convince pregnant women of that fact. Sometimes all we see is all that extra weight, right ladies?!



But I stand by my choice of shots. I wish I hadn't made her get up and down and walk all over the complex as much I did. I think she's forgiven me.

This is my favorite shot. Click here to go to the full album. New growth, new baby, new beginnings.


with love- M